Our Little Crazy Hair Baby

Here are a few shots of Anais and her ever-growing hair. She is doing quite well. She loves her gym class and will start art this spring. She loves her father very much and wakes up every morning with the words, "Snuggle Daddy."

Imagine there's no Heaven (it's easy if you try)

One of the amazing things watching Anaïs grow up is being able to track her reasoning abilities as they grow. As an example, over the past month or so, she's been working on her imagination with different physical entities.

Stage 1: Having her "babies" do things. "Can your baby help put away the blocks?" Anaïs mashes her baby and the block together and dumps the block into the box.

Stage 2: Having Elmo pick things up. She took a page that had come out of a coloring book with Elmo on it and used it to pick things up, saying "Elmo ". Elmo was facing away from her and toward the object. (This might have been the most impressive phase, translating 2D into 3D).

Stage 3: Going around with a lion puppet on her hand having 'Lion' do things, such as draw on the chalkboard and have snack.

I'm sure it hasn't stopped here, but it's now beyond my limited abilities to figure out.

Cousins

Here is the princess with her cousing Owen and Hailey. We are very happy to have them up here. We saw them for the Superbowl and had a lovely time.